If not for the Miami Conservancy District’s flood protection system, last week’s rainfall could have caused disastrous flooding around the region.
New data from the district finds that four dams in the region — Englewood, Lockington, Taylorsville, and Huffman — held back a peak volume of 5.1 billion gallons of water during last week’s storm event starting March 27.
“This wasn’t just high water — this was a coordinated flood storage event across the region,” said MaryLynn Lodor, general manager of the Miami Conservancy District…